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There was a fellow named Harrison who led the U.S. Ping Pong team to China back in 1971, and Connie Chung, the NBC anchor whose parents and four sisters were born in China and who bravely tried her Chinese on Zhao, who bravely professed understanding. Ruth Graham, Billy's beautiful wife, sat on the President's left. Billy was on duty, making arrangements in Europe for his crusade, the only thing that could keep him away. The devil and Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Talking Peace and Pork Chops | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...shifted from leather into plastics and soon became the world's largest manufacturer of above-ground swimming pools. That was a seasonal business, so they bought a snowmobile manufacturer and suffered heavy losses during the mild winter that followed. They admired Atari's pioneering home video game, Pong, and they made a fortune on an imitation named Telstar. But they overinvested in that, lost $22 million in 1978 and nearly went bankrupt. Then they gambled heavily on ColecoVision, which could play both Atari and Mattel games. It is still selling well (1.9 million units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Cabbage Patch Craze | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...Carolina in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. The 341-ft.-long vessel was clearly having mechanical troubles, but it issued no international distress signal. Instead, the ship and its crew of about 90 men braved the winds and waves, bobbing, in the words of a U.S. officer, "like a Ping-Pong ball in a stormy bathtub." A Soviet intelligence ship eventually appeared to monitor the activities of the submarine and an American destroyer that was keeping watch over the stricken craft, while the queasy Soviet sailors waited for a salvage ship that eventually arrived from Cuba. Said a Pentagon spokesman during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dead in the Water | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Typical of the new games is Pong, a popular version of electronic table tennis manufactured by two-year-old Atari, Inc. (estimated fiscal 1974 revenue: $14 million) of Los Gatos, Calif. Atari sold some 8,500 games to U.S. amusement parlors and other businesses last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business 1974: Industry: Space Age Pinball, Atari's PONG | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...awed by her part, as the consul's exwife, than by her boss. "The thing that makes one so frightened is that one has such a great desire to please him," she says, recalling her first meeting with Huston. "I felt like I had three or four Ping-Pong balls in my mouth at all times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 19, 1983 | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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